WARNING!! Noose or Necklace? What You DIDN'T Know About Racism

Did you know....

I obviously deal with race/gender/religion inequality every moment of my day. I did some widespread research and uncovered some ugly, but fascinating truths about racism:

• people of color are the highest percentage of race to live in neighborhoods within 1.8 miles of the nation's most hazardous waste facilities.
• in the U.S, the unemployment for minorities are twice as high as whites.
• in Great Britain, it's worse with four times the unemployment rate.
• in the U.S, Blacks are only 12% of the national population, but they make up 48% of all inmates.
• in Australia, the percentile of Native Australians in prison is 14 times higher than the national average.
• Xenophobia is the fear of foreigners or people different than you.
• there are 762 different kinds of hate groups in the U.S
• there are at least five times the genetic variation within any race of people than between them.
• in Washington D.C, in over a 50+ year spans, the segregated black public schools were equal to or better in academic scores than a majority of white public schools on tests in the nation. This dates all the way back to 1899.
• IQ scores are affected by environmental factors.
• on average, Orientals and Jews have the highest IQ score, followed by Caucasians/Europeans, then Blacks.
• In tests done by the US Army, Blacks from Ohio routinely have a higher IQ score (49.5) than Whites from Mississippi(41.25)
• A public school, #161, in Brooklyn, NY is 91 Black and 8% Latino. The average lass size is 35. 80% of Kindergarteners can read, 6th graders have the 2nd highest reading score in NY State, and nationally, 6th-8th graders are in the 93rd percentile of reading and 96th percentile in math.
• According to Pierce,Greg; "Inside Politics- or the Records", Washington Times, June 1999, 69% of Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, whereas 82% of Republicans voted in favor of it.
• the annual median household income for Asians is $45,249, Whites is $38,972,Hispanics is $26,628, and Blacks is $25,050.
• 66% of Blck kids live in a single home.
• only 18% of Whites live in a single parent home.
• 45% of Blacks own a home, but 67% of Whites own their own home.
• Hispanics are considered "white" or classified as such in law enforcement databases and reports whether they are perpetrators or victims

Defining Color According to Dictionary.com: Black is defined as: soiled, stained, or dirty Brown is defined as: fed up/angry, offensive description of a non-white person, and tanned. A White person is defined as: honorable, dependable, innocent, and decent, a pure color.